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Burled

Definition: Burled

Burled

Adjective

1. (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "burled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)


Crosswords: Burled

Specialty definitions using "burled": Burl, Burler. (references)

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Photo Album: Burled

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Gig Harbor as seen over burled cedar driftwood. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Burled

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

burled

8

burled walnut

5

burled wood

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Burled

Language Translations for "burled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

geknotet (kinked, knotted). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

erezett (grained, nervate, veined, veiny). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urledbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Burled

Misspellings

"Burled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berluddy, Borle, breld, bulde, Burlam, Burlend, Burler, Burles, burrled, byrled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Burled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-r-u"

-1 letter: blued, bluer, lubed, lured, redub, ruble, ruled.

-2 letters: bedu, bled, blue, blur, bred, burd, burl, drub, duel, dure, leud, lube, lude, lure, rube, rude, rued, rule.

-3 letters: bed, bel, bud, bur, deb, del, dub, due, eld, led, leu, reb, red, rub, rue, urb, urd.

-4 letters: be, de, ed, el, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-r-u"
 

+1 letter: bludger, blunder, blurbed, blurred, blurted, boulder, builder, bundler, burbled, burgled, doubler, drumble, durable, rebuild, rubbled, rumbled.

 

+2 letters: barleduc, bludgers, bluebird, blunders, boulders, bouldery, builders, bundlers, crumbled, doublers, doublure, drumbled, drumbles, durables, grumbled, laboured, lumbered, rebuilds, redouble, troubled, unbridle.

 

+3 letters: barleducs, blubbered, bluebeard, bluebirds, blundered, blunderer, blustered, bouldered, boulevard, bucklered, bulldozer, bulwarked, burladero, doublures, endurable, endurably, overbuild, pureblood, rebuilded, redoubled, redoubles, reducible, reducibly, replumbed, slubbered, slumbered, subdermal, unbridled, unbridles, unridable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Burled


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 72 6C 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    .-.    .-..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0072 006C 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368784787170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Burled"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungdeutsch, Deutsche, német

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításUngar, magyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, angol
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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